make out
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(verb) comprehend; "I cannot make out what this politician is saying" |
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Related Words: understand |
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(verb) try to establish: "She made out that she know nothing about the crime" |
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Related Words: claim |
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(verb) imply or suggest: "Your remarks make me out to be stupid" |
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Related Words: intimate, suggest |
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(verb) kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car" |
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Synonyms: neck |
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Related Words: pet, smooch, snog, spoon |
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(verb) have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
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Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, screw, sleep with |
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Related Words: copulate, couple, fornicate, have, mate, pair, take |
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(verb) make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a ticket"; "Please make the check out to me" |
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Synonyms: cut, issue, write out |
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Related Words: check, write |
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(verb) come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas." |
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Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, manage |
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Related Words: act, cope with, cut, hack, match, meet, move, rub along, scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by |
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(verb) proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?" "How are you making out in graduate school?" "He's come a long way" |
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Synonyms: come, do, fare, get along |
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Related Words: go, proceed |
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(verb) write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form" |
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Synonyms: complete, fill in, fill out |
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(verb) detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" |
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Synonyms: discern, distinguish, pick out, recognize, tell apart |
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Related Words: discriminate, resolve |
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